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TOTAL QUEST COMPLETION = 0%
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If you scroll down to the bottom of each zone/area, there is a grouping of non-missable quests you can do at any point during your playthrough. I've grouped them based
on the locations, but they can be done whenever you'd like. I highly encourage you to mix them in with the ordered quests to keep up with the recommended levels.
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LOCATIONQUESTEXTRA DETAILS
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KAER MORHENVIZIMAWHITE ORCHARDVELEN
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MAIN QUESTSSIDE QUESTSCONTRACTSTREASURE HUNTS
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NOVIGRAD/OXENFURTSKELLIGEHEARTS OF STONEBLOOD AND WINE
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GWENT & THE HEROES' PURSUITSSCAVENGER HUNTSCHANCE ENCOUNTERSEXTRA DETAILS
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THE FOLLOWING IS THE OPTIMAL ORDER TO DO ALL THE QUESTS IN THE WITCHER 3 WITHOUT MISSING OR FAILING ANYTHING.
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The extra details next to the quests may contain spoilers. Thank you to xLetalis for the many extra details!!
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The numbers in brackets are the suggested level you should be when completing the quest.
I recommend using a phone app called MapGenie: Witcher 3 Map. It shows all quests, gwent card locations, and a search option. You can remove the icons as you go.
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KAER MORHENKaer Morhen (1)-When starting a new game, when asked to simulate a witcher 2 save, select 'On' so that you can choose
what happened in the previous game during an interaction in Vizima.
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-In the main menu options, you can have alternate appearances for Yennefer, Triss, Ciri, Dandelion,
and Nilfgaardian soldiers' armor.
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-Here is a list of mods for PC gamers.
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-Here is a list of many of the Easter Eggs that can be found in the game.
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-When fast traveling, there are cutscenes/loading screens that tell you what part of the main quest you are at.
The narrator of these is actually an older Dandelion (a bard you will meet later on in the game). He is also the
one that does all the journal entries for everything in your quest log.
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-There are new hair and beard options from the next gen update.
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-With the next gen upgrade, you no longer need stamina to run outside of combat.
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-In the next gen upgrade, guards are no longer extremely overlevelled and can easily be dispatched if
you anger them.
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-Fall damage has now been reduced.
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-Deleted content available with the Brothers in Arms mod. It contains more exploration at the very beginning
of the game, including drawings and writings from Ciri, and interactions with Lambert and Eskel.
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WHITE ORCHARDLilac and Gooseberries Part 1 (1)-Get the Temerian armor set at the Woesong Bridge vendor in White Orchard. Note that the set does not level
with you, but if you wait until you are a higher level, the set will also be a higher level.
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-There is now a new animation for picking up herbs.
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-You can parry and break enemies' spears in combat, but it has to be the right kind of spear to do this.
Halberds and poleaxes cannot be parried or broken, only simple spears.
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-You can now walk backwards while on horseback, do a flourish when going from idle to a gallop, and achieve a
unique sort of backflip dismount animation when getting off Roach in tight spaces.
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-You can pet Roach now by holding down the jump button when your right hand is towards the head.
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-Roach can now kick enemies. She can even knock down werewolves so that you can do a finisher move on
them. There is no other way to knock down a werewolf.
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-Roach can now run over enemies and either stagger or kill them. The dismount animations are now triggered
based on where the camera angle is positioned.
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-Find Yen's raven skull at the beginning area (give it back to Yen eventually), see the battle from the
intro, horse head, items from guy that Yen crashed into, etc.
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-During Lilac and Gooseberries, you can find a Lion King reference. While riding past the ransacked village,
take a walk and see a boy talking with his dead father. It references Simba and Mufasa.
To get the full dialogue, you have to visit the location twice during the same quest.
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-During Lilac and Gooseberries, before you speak with Gaunter O'Dimm, you will talk with some soldiers
at one of the tables. One of their friends was tossed off their horse into a ditch. You can find the body between
the Nilfgaardian Garrison and the battlefield.
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-During Lilac and Gooseberries, you can find a soldier that looks like Lena's lover (the woman that you
may or may not have given the Swallow potion to in Tomira's hut).
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-Though it may be difficult to recreate this interaction (or might not be true), someone thinks they may have
found Elthon, from the Witcher 2, in White Orchard. Two of his lines from Witcher 2 can sometimes be heard
from a specific NPC in the Witcher 3 during 'Lilac and Gooseberries' just Northwest of Woesong Bridge on the
dock fishing.
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-North East of the Nilfgaardian Garrison, you can find a strumpet with some men under a bridge at night.
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WHITE ORCHARDTwisted Firestarter (1)-Complete before the griffin.
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-Deleted character with the Brothers in Arms mod where Willis, the blacksmith in White Orchard, can be
replaced by a human blacksmith later on in the game if you return.
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WHITE ORCHARDA Frying Pan, Spick and Span (1)-Complete before the griffin.
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-Break open the door to the house before talking to the frying pan lady to get unique dialogue.
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-Thaler's monocle dialogue is now fixed in the next gen update. Make sure to pick up the monocle in
'A Frying Pan, Spick and Span', so you can return it to Thaler in 'A Deadly Plot'.
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WHITE ORCHARDPrecious Cargo (1)-Complete before the griffin.
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WHITE ORCHARDMissing in Action (1)-Complete before the griffin.
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-During 'Missing in Action' you can see that Dune is missing a couple fingers.
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WHITE ORCHARDDevil by the Well (2)-Visit Tomira after Devil by the Well for more lore about the fate of the villagers. Tomira is the herbalist woman
you will meet during 'The Beast of White Orchard' and 'On Death's Bed'.
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-Deleted dialogue with the Brothers in Arms mod where the noonwraith would speak during 'Devil by the Well'.
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WHITE ORCHARDOn Death's Bed (2)-This is started during The Beast of White Orchard when you speak with Tomira. Complete before the griffin.
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-Tomira in White Orchard will buy honey comb for 7 coins whereas other merchants will only buy it for
4 coins. If you aard a beehive all the way to Tomira's hut, it will actually kill her.
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-Lena's fate is determined in the Nilfgaardian camp later on in the game. I've put a reminder next to some quests
that are closer to that area.
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WHITE ORCHARDThe Beast of White Orchard (3)-Hidden area of Nilgaardian camp. Open the door, climb the stairs, jump over the wall, and aard.
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-During 'The Beast of White Orchard', you can find an interesting sketch on the table of the Nilfgaardian captain.
It appears to be a map of White Orchard.
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-You can find Florian's grave in the cemetary and it has a wooden sword. It doesn't state the truth of the love
between him and Mislav.
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-You can Aard the beehives in White Orchard and kill merchants in the area, including Tomira and the man
who teaches you how to play Gwent, and then get all of their loot. This may not work in the next gen upgrade
anymore since the bees now leave once you knock down the hive.
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-During The Beast of White Orchard, before talking with Vesemir, you can overhear him and another man
talking about Boyan Klimmick who might be the man who was whipped back at the Nilfgaardian camp, though
very unlikely. Vesemir might be the one behind the tampering of the grain, but once again, very unlikely. The
grain was just rotten instead of poisoned. This is all just a little theory, but has been proven to be untrue.
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-If you remain in the fort after reporting the Griffin's death, you can hear the sound of whipping and the punished
peasant crying in pain. The whiplashes will be struck 15 times as sentenced before the sound stops completely.
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WHITE ORCHARDLilac and Gooseberries Part 2 (1)-Spawn a chort by killing a bunch of cows.
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WHITE ORCHARDThe Incident at White Orchard (2)
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THE FOLLOWING QUESTS CAN BE DONE AT ANY TIME THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE GAME AND IN ANY ORDER. I'VE GROUPED THEM TOGETHER BASED ON THE ZONE THEY TAKE PLACE IN,
BUT THEY CAN STILL BE DONE NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE GAME OR STORY.
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WHITE ORCHARDDirty Funds (2)
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WHITE ORCHARDDeserter Gold (3)
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WHITE ORCHARDTemerian Valuables (4)
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WHITE ORCHARDViper Silver Sword (Basic) (6)
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WHITE ORCHARDViper Steel Sword (Basic) (6)
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WHITE ORCHARDGwent: Collect 'em All! (1)
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VIZIMAImperial Audience (2)-Speak with Morvran Voorhis and his friend about neutrality during 'Imperial Audience' (follow the chamberlain).
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-New gear found in a chest in Yennifer's room in Vizima (Steel Sword of a Thousand Flowers, White Widow of
the Valley of Flowers Silver Sword, armor, boots, gauntlets, and trousers of a Thousand Flowers, Nine-tailed
Vixen steel and silver sword, and White Tiger of the West armor, boots, trousers, and vambraces.
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-Best choices are: spared Aryan, sided with Vernon, saved Triss, saved Sile, spared Letho.
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-Enter a secret chamber by pressing a stone @0:19.
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-In Vizima, the chamberlain will give a different reaction to each of the 3 black outfits. He doesn't seem
to like the one with the tight belt.
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-In Vizima, you can keep your towel for the rest of the game by dropping it and then picking it up after you
pick your black outfit.
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-Deleted scene of Emhyr cutting the old tree in Vizima.
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VIZIMAGwent: Collect 'em All! (1)-Play Gwent against the player in the courtyard in Vizima (Collect 'em All).
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VELENFuneral Pyres (3)-If you do 'Funeral Pyres' before 'In the Eternal Fire's Shadow', you will get some unique dialogue.
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-During the quest 'Funeral Pyres', when meeting the Eternal Fire Priest, you can see a map of the Witcher
world lying on the stone table next to the priest.
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VELENAt the Mercy of Strangers-If you save John Verdun, there will be a second part to this quest. You can find him again north of Ursten (you
can check the map in the attached quest page link). Make sure to do this when you pass by while completing
'The Nilfgaardian Connection'. Complete both parts as soon as possible, otherwise John Verdun will die.
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-If you save John Verden, during 'At the Mercy of Strangers', in the second spot that he appears, you can find a
note from a refugee at the back of his camp.
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VELENThe Nilfgaardian Connection (5)-During 'The Nilfgaardian Connection', if you don't go to the inn at the crossroads right away and find Henrik
instead, you'll get a unique interaction when visiting the Baron's castle during the quest 'Bloody Baron'.
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-During the 'Nilfgaardian Connection', as you make your way to the inn at the crossroads, there is a man that
sends his daughter away in case the Baron's men return. You can even follow her and see her cowering in the
woods or get attacked, though she can't actually die. If you don't kill the Baron's men in the inn, they will be
asking the man about his daughter later on. There is also a couple that is concerned about their pigs and the
man says he'd rather slaughter them then let the Baron's men have them.
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-During 'The Nilfgaardian Connection', even if you resolve the matter with the Baron's men peacefully, you can
still get into a fight if you pester them long enough after the conversation.
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-If you fall from a great distance and die, you will sometimes hear a Wilhelm scream.
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-You can now find a candle lantern in a cave North West of the Hanged Man's Tree.
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-The Wild Hunt do not appear in the bestiary, so it can be useful to know that Elemental Oil works against them.
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-You can find the man that teaches you how to play gwent hanging from the Hanged Man's Tree near Mulbrydale. You can loot an unfinished book under him.
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VELENMan's Best Friend
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VELENDeadly Crossing (II)-Deadly crossing 2 is triggered by going across when Nilfgaardian soldiers are alive, then coming back at
a later time.
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-Where to find the powerful sword called Moonblade. It is South West of Mulbrydale, in the water West of
the bridge.
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-The traveling merchant switches between 3 main locations. Here is a map of where they are. He has
dialogue at each place. First spot is west of Crow's Perch near Blackbough.
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-Second traveling merchant spot is east of Glory Gate.
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-Third traveling merchant spot is near Carston.
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VELENHazardous Goods (5)-Complete immediately and must do before Ghosts of the Past.
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-In Hazardous Goods, if you help burn the cart, meditate far away from the area for 10-12
days and the man will reappear @5:48.
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-During 'Hazardous Goods', there used to be a unique scene that was removed, but can be seen with a mod.
The man you speak with can bring up the fact that he thinks the Nilfgaardians brought the plague to Velen.
During development, there was initially supposed to be a long quest about the plague.
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-There's a large rock formation East of Lindenvale and South West of the starting point of 'Hazardous Goods'.
This rock formation is almost in the shape of a face.
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VELENCaravan Attack-The person you save from 'Caravan Attack' will show up as a shopkeeper at Crow's Perch.
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VELENHarassing a Troll-North West of the Inn of the Crossroads, you can pass through a Nilfgaardian camp and see a map of the
Continent. The Redanians are on the opposite shore. On top of the hill, you can see a couple that have
died and are holding hands.
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VELENLooters (I)
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VELENFace Me if You Dare (I)-In 'Face me if you Dare', Ronvid is fighting for Lady Bilberry. You can find a notice on a nearby noticeboard that
says, "My daughter Bilberry, a lovely girl and the apple of our eyes, died this year, the fourth of her short life. We
buried her in the graveyard, by the crooked birch. Whoever wants to place a lump of earth or light a candle for
her, that's where to go. — Butkins"
This implies that Ronvid is Butkins and is fighting for his daughter that passed away.
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VELENBloody Baron (6)-Get the Nilfgaardian armor set from the quartermaster, which can be found in Crow's Perch along with matching
horse gear. Note that the set does not level with you, but if you wait until you are a higher level, the set will also
be a higher level.
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-You can get the Nilfgaardian crossbow from the quartermaster at Crow's Perch (part of the elite crossbow set).